Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because damp wheat makes musty flour, because damp wood makes warped boards, grain and lumber dealers asked Canada's National Bureau of Research for a quick, cheap way of measuring the moisture of their goods. The Bureau instructed Professor Eli Franklin Burton of Toronto University to work on it; he put one Arnold Pitt, his graduate student, at the task. Last week their invention was perfected...
After that it was easy to design a container, connected with an electric circuit and gauge, in which grain or lumber might rest. Where it took hours by the oven process to grade material, the Burton-Pitt machine takes ten minutes...
Theodore Elijah Burton, 77 most famed and revered of all active Ohio Statesmen, strong of voice, quick to action. He has been in the Senate before. And both before and after his previous Senatorial term he served as Congressman, being thereby unique in U. S. history...
...Walsh, Wet Catholic, retained his Senatorial Seat from Massachusetts. Also, in New York, Democratic Dr. Royal S. Copeland survived. But in New Jersey, Wet Democratic Edward I. Edwards fell before mild-faced Hamilton F. Kean. In Montana, bitter was the battle and sweet the victory for famed radical Democrat Burton K. Wheeler. But in West Virginia bitter was the battle and bitter the defeat of War Hero M. M. Neely by Republican Henry D. Hatfield...
Substitutions Harvard Cooper for R. C. Carter, Riddle for Tatham, Grover for Carrigan, Score--Northeastern 1, Harvard 0, Goal--Burton. Referse--Daily. Time-four 22 minute periods...